World news in 7 minutes. Friday 9th August 2024.
Today: Ukraine Russia incursion. UK counter-protests. Austria terrorist plot. Spain Puigdemont search. US Walz chosen. Venezuela arrests. Nigeria Russian flag ban. Kenya silver reinstated. Japan earthquake. Thailand party ban. Bangladesh interim PM. NASA trapped astronauts.
With Stephen Devincenzi
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Today: Ukraine Russia incursion. UK counter-protests. Austria terrorist plot. Spain Puigdemont search. US Walz chosen. Venezuela arrests. Nigeria Russian flag ban. Kenya silver reinstated. Japan earthquake. Thailand party ban. Bangladesh interim PM. NASA trapped astronauts.
With Stephen Devincenzi
SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
Our supporters get access to the transcripts written by us every day.
Our supporters get access to an English worksheet made by us once per week. Our supporters get access to our weekly news quiz made by us once per week. We give 10% of our profit to Effective Altruism charities. You can become a supporter at send7.org/support
In August, there is a ten euro discount on joining as a yearly supporter, using the code AUGUST2024
Contact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7
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Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Ben Mallett and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated stories in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devinchenzi. Today is Friday, the ninth of August
twenty twenty four. Starting in Europe today, Ukraine's military has
(00:22):
crossed into Russia's Kersk region and fighting is continuing. Military
analysts say that hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers with military vehicles
crossed into Russia on Tuesday and remain in control of
some villages inside Russia. Despite Russia's full scale invasion of
(00:44):
Ukraine starting two and a half years ago, it is
very rare for fighting to take place inside Russia. Some
unconfirmed videos appear to show Russian border guards surrendering to
Ukrainian soldiers in Ukraine. The Russian army is continuing to
make slow advances in Donetsk region. In the United Kingdom,
(01:07):
there have been large anti racism and anti far right
protests in response to far right protests over the last
two weeks. Some prison sentences have already been given for
actions during the far right protests, including one man who
has been jailed for three years for punching a police
(01:30):
officer in the face. United States billionaire Elon Musk yesterday
shared a fake news story on Twitter, the social media
site he owns, which said that the UK government was
considering sending detained far right prisoners to the Falkland Islands.
(01:50):
In Austria, three concerts of the US singer Taylor Swift
have been canceled because of a planned Islamist jihadist terror attack.
Austrian police say that they have arrested two people who
appeared to be planning an attack on the Ernst Happel
Stadium with the aim of killing as many people as possible.
(02:13):
Chancellor Carl Nayama has said that a tragedy has been prevented.
In Spain, police are searching for former Catalan president Carlos Pugdamont,
who returned to Spain yesterday for the first time in
seven years to speak to a crowd in Barcelona. Pugdamont
(02:35):
has been living in self imposed exile in Belgium since
an illegal independence referendum and unrecognized declaration of the independence
of Catalonia in twenty seventeen. The current Spanish government of
socialist Pedro Sanchez has pardoned around four hundred people involved
(02:55):
in the referendum and declaration of independence. However, Spain Supreme
Court have said that the amnesty does not apply to
Push Dumont and some others. Yesterday, Spanish police were searching
cars traveling in the direction of France. One police officer
has been arrested in connection with possibly helping Push Dumont
(03:18):
escape Americas. In the United States, vice president and Democratic
presidential candidate Kamala Harris has named the governor of Minnesota,
Tim Walls as her running mate to become vice president.
At his first rally since being announced as Harris's running mate,
(03:41):
Walls spoke about community values, how Donald Trump and his
vice presidential choice JD. Vance are weird, and about how
Trump only cares about himself.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Minnesota strength comes from our values, our commitment to working together,
to seeing Pascar differences, to always being willing to lend
a helping hand. Those are the same values I learned
on the family farm and tried to instill in my students.
Donald Trump sees the world a little differently than us.
First of all, he doesn't know the first thing about service.
(04:14):
He doesn't have time for it because he's too busy
serving himself. He marks our laws, he saws chaos and division,
and make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump.
That's not even counting the crimes he committed.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Venezuela's opposition leaders have asked the army and police to
abandon President Nicolas Maduro, who they say was fraudulently announced
as the winner of the recent presidential election. There are
reports of Venezuelan authorities arresting over one thousand people for
participating in protests, with some people taken from their homes
(04:56):
by men in masks Africa. In Nigeria, police say that
they have arrested some makers of Russian flags during anti
government protests last week. Some protesters flew Russian flags. Analysts
say that some Africans view Russia as an alternative to
(05:19):
the West, which they blame for problems in their countries.
Chief of the Defense Staff, General Christopher Mussa said that
flying any foreign flags in protests is a treasonable offense.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We will not accept anybody, any individual flying any foreign
flag in Nigeria. That is straineroble offense and it will
be viewed and treated as such.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Kenyan runner Faith Kipia Gun has won an appeal to
have her Olympic silver medal reinstated after she was originally
disqualified from the five thousand meter final for making contact
with another runner. Kenya also won the gold medal in
the same event, with Beatrice Chebitz coming first. There were
(06:08):
also problems in the men's five thousand meter first round
when four athletes fell over. However, all of them have
been allowed into the final. Asia Japan was hit by
a powerful earthquake yesterday and a tsunami warning was triggered.
(06:30):
Injuries were reported, but no deaths. Thailand's Constitutional Court has
banned Thailand's biggest political party, move Forward, won the most
votes and seats in last year's general election, but the
court said that it must be dissolved because of its
(06:51):
promise to change laws that say you cannot criticize the monarchy.
In Bangladesh, Mohammad Yunus has been named as interim prime
Minister after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina during protests on Monday.
Mohammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand
(07:12):
and six for his work on micro credit and micro finance,
helping poor people in Bangladesh and in space, NASA has
said that two astronauts who were meant to spend eight
days on the International Space Station might not be able
to return until next year. NASA officials have said that
(07:36):
problems with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft meant that it would
be months before Butch Wilmore and Sanita Williams can return,
but they have plenty of food and water. That's your
world news in seven minutes during August. This podcast is
released only on Tuesdays and Fridays, so the next episode
(08:01):
will be on Tuesday. A big thank you to Aram
in South Korea and Mikhaila in Romania for becoming our
newest supporters. If you would like to have access to
the transcripts of every episode and our weekly worksheets and
weekly world news quiz, you can become a supporter at
(08:22):
senseven dot org and during August there is a ten
euro discount on becoming a yearly supporter using the discount
code August twenty twenty four. Have a great weekend, See
you on Tuesday.
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devinchenzi. Today is Friday, the ninth of August
twenty twenty four. Starting in Europe today, Ukraine's military has
(00:22):
crossed into Russia's Kersk region and fighting is continuing. Military
analysts say that hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers with military vehicles
crossed into Russia on Tuesday and remain in control of
some villages inside Russia. Despite Russia's full scale invasion of
(00:44):
Ukraine starting two and a half years ago, it is
very rare for fighting to take place inside Russia. Some
unconfirmed videos appear to show Russian border guards surrendering to
Ukrainian soldiers in Ukraine. The Russian army is continuing to
make slow advances in Donetsk region. In the United Kingdom,
(01:07):
there have been large anti racism and anti far right
protests in response to far right protests over the last
two weeks. Some prison sentences have already been given for
actions during the far right protests, including one man who
has been jailed for three years for punching a police
(01:30):
officer in the face. United States billionaire Elon Musk yesterday
shared a fake news story on Twitter, the social media
site he owns, which said that the UK government was
considering sending detained far right prisoners to the Falkland Islands.
(01:50):
In Austria, three concerts of the US singer Taylor Swift
have been canceled because of a planned Islamist jihadist terror attack.
Austrian police say that they have arrested two people who
appeared to be planning an attack on the Ernst Happel
Stadium with the aim of killing as many people as possible.
(02:13):
Chancellor Carl Nayama has said that a tragedy has been prevented.
In Spain, police are searching for former Catalan president Carlos Pugdamont,
who returned to Spain yesterday for the first time in
seven years to speak to a crowd in Barcelona. Pugdamont
(02:35):
has been living in self imposed exile in Belgium since
an illegal independence referendum and unrecognized declaration of the independence
of Catalonia in twenty seventeen. The current Spanish government of
socialist Pedro Sanchez has pardoned around four hundred people involved
(02:55):
in the referendum and declaration of independence. However, Spain Supreme
Court have said that the amnesty does not apply to
Push Dumont and some others. Yesterday, Spanish police were searching
cars traveling in the direction of France. One police officer
has been arrested in connection with possibly helping Push Dumont
(03:18):
escape Americas. In the United States, vice president and Democratic
presidential candidate Kamala Harris has named the governor of Minnesota,
Tim Walls as her running mate to become vice president.
At his first rally since being announced as Harris's running mate,
(03:41):
Walls spoke about community values, how Donald Trump and his
vice presidential choice JD. Vance are weird, and about how
Trump only cares about himself.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Minnesota strength comes from our values, our commitment to working together,
to seeing Pascar differences, to always being willing to lend
a helping hand. Those are the same values I learned
on the family farm and tried to instill in my students.
Donald Trump sees the world a little differently than us.
First of all, he doesn't know the first thing about service.
(04:14):
He doesn't have time for it because he's too busy
serving himself. He marks our laws, he saws chaos and division,
and make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump.
That's not even counting the crimes he committed.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Venezuela's opposition leaders have asked the army and police to
abandon President Nicolas Maduro, who they say was fraudulently announced
as the winner of the recent presidential election. There are
reports of Venezuelan authorities arresting over one thousand people for
participating in protests, with some people taken from their homes
(04:56):
by men in masks Africa. In Nigeria, police say that
they have arrested some makers of Russian flags during anti
government protests last week. Some protesters flew Russian flags. Analysts
say that some Africans view Russia as an alternative to
(05:19):
the West, which they blame for problems in their countries.
Chief of the Defense Staff, General Christopher Mussa said that
flying any foreign flags in protests is a treasonable offense.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We will not accept anybody, any individual flying any foreign
flag in Nigeria. That is straineroble offense and it will
be viewed and treated as such.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Kenyan runner Faith Kipia Gun has won an appeal to
have her Olympic silver medal reinstated after she was originally
disqualified from the five thousand meter final for making contact
with another runner. Kenya also won the gold medal in
the same event, with Beatrice Chebitz coming first. There were
(06:08):
also problems in the men's five thousand meter first round
when four athletes fell over. However, all of them have
been allowed into the final. Asia Japan was hit by
a powerful earthquake yesterday and a tsunami warning was triggered.
(06:30):
Injuries were reported, but no deaths. Thailand's Constitutional Court has
banned Thailand's biggest political party, move Forward, won the most
votes and seats in last year's general election, but the
court said that it must be dissolved because of its
(06:51):
promise to change laws that say you cannot criticize the monarchy.
In Bangladesh, Mohammad Yunus has been named as interim prime
Minister after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina during protests on Monday.
Mohammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand
(07:12):
and six for his work on micro credit and micro finance,
helping poor people in Bangladesh and in space, NASA has
said that two astronauts who were meant to spend eight
days on the International Space Station might not be able
to return until next year. NASA officials have said that
(07:36):
problems with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft meant that it would
be months before Butch Wilmore and Sanita Williams can return,
but they have plenty of food and water. That's your
world news in seven minutes during August. This podcast is
released only on Tuesdays and Fridays, so the next episode
(08:01):
will be on Tuesday. A big thank you to Aram
in South Korea and Mikhaila in Romania for becoming our
newest supporters. If you would like to have access to
the transcripts of every episode and our weekly worksheets and
weekly world news quiz, you can become a supporter at
(08:22):
senseven dot org and during August there is a ten
euro discount on becoming a yearly supporter using the discount
code August twenty twenty four. Have a great weekend, See
you on Tuesday.
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